Michael T. Starks

Category: Storytelling

  • Peter Weir

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    Peter Weir is one of my favorite directors and one of my heroes. Here are my favorite movies that he has directed. The Year of Living Dangerously, Dead Poet’s Society, and Fearless are each so good that I would love Peter Weir’s work if he had done nothing else. But he has! Each of the…

  • The Milky Way

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    Okay, this is interesting. I just read the article Why Is Our Galaxy Called The Milky Way? I’m not sure why I haven’t heard about this before. I guess it must not be in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology book (which I know from a high school English class). According to mythology, Hera was breastfeeding Zeus’s half-mortal…

  • A Great Bartender

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    Tonight, I ordered food to go from the bartender at a fancy restaurant. His grey beard was a least four inches long while his short hair was not even a quarter-inch long. He worked with effortless efficiency. He engaged everyone with respectful enthusiasm. And you could just tell that he was having fun. When I…

  • Nostalgia

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    Yesterday, I decided to take a trip down Memory Lane. I drove through the neighborhood where I grew up, where I went to school from kindergarten through third grade. The house where my family lived during this time is still there. Here’s what it looks like now, almost 50 years later. If you look behind…

  • Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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    It’s been many years since I read Women Who Run with Wolves. I’m tempted to read it again. While I remember how much I loved it, I don’t remember some of the specifics. It has a lot to do with what makes us human. “Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a…

  • Casablanca

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    One of my favorite movies of all time is Casablanca. I decided to watch it again to celebrate Father’s Day. Of course, we’ve only been making movies since about 1874, or maybe 1888. I can hardly believe we’ve only been making movies for about 136 years! Here are a few of the reasons why I…

  • Last Night’s Dream

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    Last night, I dreamt of going back to college. As I wandered around a campus that may have been CU, I walked through the bookstore. But it only had trinkets and decorative books for sale. I assumed all the textbooks must be in a digital format now. I looked for the physical place where I…

  • Myself as a Character?

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    Michael was getting tired. This was not unusual for him in the mid-afternoon. He got up, stepped away from his computer, and decided it would be a good time for a walk. To avoid getting a sunburn on his balding head, he put on an old baseball cap from Breckenridge, Colorado. Then, he stepped out…

  • Jim Henson

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    Today, I started watching Jim Henson: Idea Man. How could I not take the opportunity to learn more about one of my heroes? Jim Henson had so many ideas that he felt like he didn’t have enough time to realize them all. So, he worked on multiple ideas at once. He grew up in rural…

  • May the 4th…

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    People do not have the same priorities. This is a good thing. Today, early in the morning, I got a text from my son reminding me to celebrate Star Wars Day. This meant the world to me! May the 4th be with you! Later in the day, I took my daughter to visit other family…